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Platform cooperativism for the Uberworked Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Tim Christiaens
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Managing stigma together: Relationality in the wound clinic Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Anna Milena Galazka, Ismael Al-Amoudi
Our paper contributes to studies of stigma and dirty work by asking ‘how can workers and clients of dirty work manage stigma together?’ With the purpose of appreciating the worker/client relational dynamics in an organisation characterised by stigma, we conducted an ethnography in a wound healing clinic where clinicians do the dirty work of caring for patients with socially stigmatising wounds. To
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What do you mean? Linguistic sensitivity and relational reflexivity in scholarly writing Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Iga Maria Lehman, Janne Tienari
We argue that privileged forms of scholarly writing in the English language perpetuate inequalities in academia. While writing and language, on the one hand, and marginalization and exclusion, on the other, are subject to critique, we propose that these are considered together as interrelated elements of an unequal academic system. We call for linguistic sensitivity to challenge the systemic inequalities
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Craft-orientation as a mode of organizing for postgrowth society Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Jens Rennstam, Alexander Paulsson
How may a “craft-orientation” facilitate a shift toward an ecologically sustainable economy that does not perceive the pursuit of economic growth as a self-evident good? Responding to this question, this paper is rooted in the argument that efforts to increase economic growth collide with ecological sustainability goals and pose a substantial threat to human prosperity. Drawing on key insights from
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Let’s dream big! Affecting future female workers through governmental atmospheres Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Mie Plotnikof, Justine Grønbæk Pors
This paper addresses the subtle, affective power of organisational discourses and practices concerning employability that target children as future workers. It develops a concept of governmental atmospheres inspired by governmentality studies and theories of affective, atmospheric power dynamics. Governmental atmospheres are defined as an affective charging of a normative setting that incites individuals
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Epistemic governance of evaluative practices by organizations: The case of sovereign credit ratings Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Claudio Columbano, Mahmoud Ezzamel
Financial analysts often work for organizations, such as brokerage houses, banks, and credit rating agencies. We ask whether these organizations condition the work of analysts and, if so, how and why. Through a qualitative study of the sovereign government rating departments of four credit rating agencies, our paper sheds light on the bundle of social practices and material arrangements through which
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Two routes to degeneration, two routes to utopia: The impure critical performativity of alternative organizing Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Genevieve Shanahan
It sometimes appears that alternative organizations are doomed to perpetuate the systems they aim to transform, as efforts to avoid co-optation entail retreat from the very engagement social change requires. Scholars then face a dilemma: do we reveal these degenerative processes in existing alternative organizations and reinforce disillusionment, or avoid such critique and endorse ineffectual strategies
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Hidden figures: Women’s experiences in management graduate courses in Brazil Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Polyanna Torres, Marcelo de Souza Bispo
This study examines the sexism practiced in the academic environments of Management graduate schools in Brazil. We investigate how sexist practices manifested in the intersectionality of gender, race, and class affect female researchers’ training in Management graduate schools. Universities are spaces where students learn to be scholars and receive education and training in various disciplines. Based
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Gaia storytelling: Management learning as terrestrial politics Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen, Pauline Fatien
This paper addresses calls for developing eco-centric approaches to sustainable management learning that challenge the anthropocentric technocratic foci of established models. A growing concern is that despite declarations of climate emergencies, programs making a sustainable turn perpetuate rather than challenge the status-quo. A key issue is that they rely on an ontology of separateness which further
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Female desire in phallocentric industries: A duo-ethnographic interrogation Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Maria Brock, Sara Persson
The persistence of workplace inequality requires female subjects to examine their place in exploitative systems of production and consumption, and to identify means for emancipation beyond masculine dominant orders. In this paper we examine our past experiences as young women in the finance and oil industries, the phallocentric and extractive engines of global capitalism. We do this by employing a
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Postfeminist technologies of authenticity: Examining the construction of authentic feminine selves in the neoliberal workplace Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Sara Zaeemdar
This paper examines how the neoliberal injunction to be authentic as addressed to working women operates at the level of the individual. Drawing on Foucault’s framing of self-construction, the paper conceptualizes the quest for the authentic feminine self as a technology of the self which enables women to work upon transformation of their subjectivity to attain a state of authenticity. The developed
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Subtle activism: Heterotopic principles for unsettling contemporary academia from within Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Annemette Kjærgaard, Rasmus Bergmann, Maribel Blasco, Tali Padan, Carole Elliott, Jamie Callahan, Sarah Robinson, Tony Wall
Research on academic activism tends to foreground vociferous and explicit forms of activism that pursue predefined political agendas. Against this backdrop, this article proposes that academic acti...
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Breaking isolation: Consciousness-raising as a methodology for academic activism Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Lauren McCarthy, Kate Grosser
In this essay we argue that one way to combat the depressing creep of the neoliberal university is to recuperate and re-use consciousness raising (CR) in teaching, administration, research, and eng...
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Hiding in plain sight: Exploring the complex pathways between tactical concealment and relational wellbeing Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 David Raymond Jones, Tony Wall, Amy Kenworthy, Fiona Hurd, Suzette Dyer, Peggy Hedges, Shankar Sankaran
We argue that the current environment in higher education is one of the primary drivers for the widespread adoption of concealment tactics with the aim of enhancing wellbeing. To explore the relati...
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Extreme wellness at work: Whose body counts in the rise of exceptionalist organisational fitness cultures Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Tim Butcher, Eric P James, Peter Bloom
Management has long concerned itself with controlling workers’ bodies, with organisational wellness discourses being its latest fixation. This article’s purpose is to introduce and understand ‘whos...
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A metatheoretical framework for organizational wellbeing research: Toward conceptual pluralism in the wellbeing debate Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Peter Kenttä, Jouni Virtaharju
The organizational wellbeing discourse has in the past decades gravitated toward two adversarial camps. The first camp draws increasingly from positive psychology and studies wellbeing as the prese...
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Re-organising wellbeing: Contexts, critiques and contestations of dominant wellbeing narratives Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 David Watson, James Wallace, Christopher Land, Jana Patey
Wellbeing has emerged as an important discourse of management and organisation. Practices of wellbeing are located in concrete organisational arrangements and shaped by power relations built upon e...
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Invisible minds: The dominant wellbeing discourse, mental health, bio-power and chameleon resistance Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Hadar Elraz, Darren McCabe
The dominant wellbeing discourse (DWD) in neoliberal economies can be understood as a form of bio-power that presupposes healthy individuals. It seeks to produce subjects who take responsibility fo...
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YouTube’s Yoga with Adriene as a somametamnemata: Exploring experiences of self-care and wellness in times of crisis Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Kseniya Navazhylava, Amanda Peticca Harris, Sara R.S.T.A. Elias
Drawing on the Foucauldian technologies of the self, this study explores how individuals re-envision practices of wellbeing outside of traditional organizational contexts during extreme events. Bas...
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Contextualizing capitalism in academia: How capitalist and feudalist organizing principles reinforce each other at Polish universities Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Tommy Jensen, Michał Zawadzki
In this paper, we show how capitalism and feudalism reinforce each other to enable the former’s success in the higher education context. In this regard, Polish universities are an interesting case ...
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The digital commons, cosmolocalism, and open cooperativism: The cases of P2P Lab and Tzoumakers Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Vangelis Papadimitropoulos
The digital commons support novel organizational models such as cosmolocalism and open cooperativism that seek to challenge the capitalist mode of production. They set out to establish a counter-he...
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Treating disability as an asset (not a limitation): A critical examination of disability inclusion through social entrepreneurship Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Stefanie Mauksch, Pascal Dey
Social enterprises play an increasing role in providing employment opportunities for disabled people. This paper examines the implications of social enterprises’ market-based approach to disability...
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Grounding in the unconscious: “The field” in psychosocial organizational ethnography Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Didem Derya Özdemir Kaya, Marianna Fotaki
Psychosocial research, which explores the unconscious and affective dynamics of organizational and social phenomena from critical perspectives, often adopts ethnographic methods. However, its locus...
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Affective boundaries: The power effects of objects of emotion in collaborative encounters Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Sara Dahlman
Organization studies has (re)turned to affect, a development that has brought affective tensions—build-ups of energy, or vitalities—to the fore of research. Previous studies on affect in organizati...
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Beyond the technology-centric and citizen-centric binary: Ontological politics of organizing in Translation of the Smart City Discourse in India Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Harsh Mittal, George Kandathil, Navdeep Mathur
Smart city (SC) experts in India often center-stage citizens as an alternative to a technology-led transformation. A substantial body of literature on smart cities sustains this resultant binary be...
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Tech sharing, not tech hoarding: Covid-19, global solidarity, and the failed responsibility of the pharmaceutical industry Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Susi Geiger, Nicole Gross
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of health technologies to mitigate against the spread of the disease and improve care, dominantly including life-saving vaccines. But the pandem...
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Scaling in a post-growth era: Learning from Social Agricultural Cooperatives Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Laura A Colombo, Adrian R Bailey, Marcus VP Gomes
It has become normative in organization and management studies literature to consider scaling as a synonym for organizational growth. Scaling is typically understood as scaling-up. This article dem...
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Temporal multimodality and performativity: Exploring politics of time in the discursive, communicative constitution of organization Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Mie Plotnikof, Dennis K Mumby
This paper discusses the critical role of time in the discursive, communicative constitution of organization under neo-liberal capitalism and its normalization of uncertainty and change. Building o...
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Overcoming communicative separation for stigma reconstruction: How pole dancers fight content moderation on Instagram Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Milena Leybold, Monica Nadegger
This article investigates how stigmatized groups get organized to fight stigmatization through content-moderation practices on social media platforms. We apply a communicative understanding of stig...
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“You just earned 10 points!”: Gaming and grinding in academia Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Nick Butler, Sverre Spoelstra
This short paper explores the gamification of an online academic conference. At the conference, digital gamification was meant to stimulate increased levels of participation among attendees. Instea...
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Tribunals of inquiry as instruments of legitimacy: A ritualization perspective Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Paul McGrath, Donna Marshall
This paper is an exploratory qualitative study into how tribunals of inquiry act as instruments of legitimacy and hegemony for the State. Focusing on a case study of two consecutive tribunals of in...
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Collaborative construction of the closet (in and out): The affordance of interactivity and gay and lesbian employees’ identity work online Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Aleksi Soini, Kirsi Eräranta
For LGBQ employees, the disclosure and management of sexual identity in the workplace are likely to cause additional identity work. In this paper, we explore how such identity work is undertaken co...
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On the psycho-emotional deficitisation of workers in the age of cognitive enhancement Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Dirk Lindebaum, Susanne Langer
Despite being the subject of public and scholarly debates for some time, the topic of cognitive enhancement remains theoretically under-developed in organisation studies. This is because the ‘dots’...
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People on the tweets: Online collective identity narratives and temporality in the #LebaneseRevolution Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Dima Louis, Michelle Mielly
Our study examines collective identity development in the early stages of a social movement as it narratively unfolded on Twitter during the 2019 October revolution in Lebanon. Based on a sample ex...
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Romanticisation and monetisation of the digital nomad lifestyle: The role played by online narratives in shaping professional identity work Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Claudine Bonneau, Jeremy Aroles, Claire Estagnasié
Some occupations are subject to more complex identity work processes than others. This rings true for those professional endeavours that are relatively poorly known and that cannot rely on institut...
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Online identities in and around organizations: A critical exploration and way forward Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Marcos Barros, Rafael Alcadipani, Christine Coupland, Andrew D Brown
The construction, performance, and regulation of identities in the online world have deep implications for individuals, organizations, and society, particularly as digital technologies become incre...
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Constituting affective identities: Understanding the communicative construction of identity in online men’s rights spaces Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Sean M Eddington, Caitlyn M Jarvis, Patrice M Buzzanell
The present study examined how identity is affectively organized online in an online men’s rights community, responding to calls to explore how sites like Reddit serve as spaces that host and suppo...
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Managing precarity at the intersection of individual and collective life: A Membership Categorisation Analysis of Tensions and Conflict in Identities within an Online Biosocial Community Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Mohammed Cheded, Niall Curry, Alan Gilchrist, Gillian Hopkinson
This paper explores how individuals living within high-stakes precarious categories navigate their identity within online spaces. Using Membership Categorisation Analysis, we investigate how catego...
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Management’s collusion in poverty? Archetypes, conceits, and performative neophytism Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Arun Kumar, Bill Cooke
Mainstream management studies’ arm’s length engagement with poverty exemplifies its performative neophytism as field. It is enabled by its problematic archetypes of the poor and their poverty: (a) ...
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Layers and limits of power and resistance in multinational subsidiaries: The interaction of micro-politics and postcolonial power at Reuters India Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Zehra Sayed, Michal Frenkel
This study analyses how the mutual imbrication of organizational and postcolonial power along with the micro-embedding of actors’ shape and structure power struggles in multinational corporations. ...
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Culture and politics in overlapping frames for the future: Multi-dimensional activist organizing and communicating on climate change in Aotearoa New Zealand Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Debashish Munshi, Raven Cretney, Priya Kurian, Sandra L Morrison, Alvina Edwards
Responding to climate change requires us to reimagine not only our future on a planet that is rapidly changing, but also how we organize to create political change. The climate movement and those i...
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Composite relations: Democratic firms balancing the general and the particular Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Nina Pohler
This paper focuses on a central coordinative tension in alternative, democratic organizations: They need to maintain formal equality and democratic governance, but they also have to support their m...
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Who cares for wellbeing? Corporate wellness, social reproduction and the essential worker Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Anna-Maria Murtola, Neil Vallelly
This paper seeks to contribute to the rethinking of wellbeing in organisation studies. First, it contributes to critiques of corporate wellness by drawing on social reproduction theory to show how ...
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“Hold your nose and harness these men”: Sexual vulnerability in a hyper-masculine organization – A barrier or a resource? Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Tair Karazi-Presler, Varda Wasserman
Based on 34 in-depth interviews with women in the Israeli military, this article explores how the sexual vulnerability of women in power positions is used as both a disciplining power and a resourc...
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Prefiguring an alternative economy: Understanding prefigurative organizing and its struggles Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Simone Schiller-Merkens
Cooperatives, post-growth organizations, common good organizations, community-supported agriculture, transition towns or ecovillages are examples of alternative forms of organizing economic exchang...
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Dislocating peripheries to the center: A tecnologia social reinventing repertoires and territories Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-09-18 Fabio Prado Saldanha, Marlei Pozzebon, Natalia Aguilar Delgado
Although social innovation has gained increasing importance in recent decades due to its promise of promoting social change, critical scholars have identified a number of gray areas, notably numero...
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Pursuing perfection through relationality: Studying the intersubjective dynamics of embodied agency in ballet Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-09-18 Suvi Satama, Astrid Huopalainen
This study investigates the relational dynamics of embodied agency in the empirical context of ballet. Drawing on 15 ethnographic and 6 photo-elicitation interviews with professional dancers from t...
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Justifying the bored self: On projective, domestic, and civic boredom in Danish retail banking Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Erik Mygind du Plessis, Sine Nørholm Just
In the wake of the financial crisis, Danish retail bankers have experienced a marked increase in mundane administrative tasks, which do not conform to what they expect their work lives to be. Seeki...
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In praise of boredom at work Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Lucie Noury, Sumati Ahuja, Martin Parker, Andrew Sturdy, Melissa Tyler
In the context of management and organisational literature, boredom has largely been seen in individual, psychological and negative terms, both for those experiencing it and for organisational outc...
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Listening to the call of boredom at work: A Heideggerian journey into Michel Houellebecq’s novels Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Jean-Denis Culié, Vincent Meyer, Xavier Philippe
From the very first organizational theories, boredom at work has been closely linked to the issue of time. However, studies on boredom have often considered the phenomenon as a mere behavioral outc...
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“Busy idleness”: The active and moral dimension of boredom Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Rasmus Johnsen
In this essay, I argue for the value of studying boredom as a social and organizational phenomenon. Recently, an interest in the more active side of boredom has led to the publication of a number o...
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Boredom, Art and Work: Tehching Hsieh’s ‘Time Clock Piece’ and the experience of working life Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Katy Lawn
This paper addresses the work of Tehching Hsieh, a Taiwanese-American conceptual artist who uses boredom – and specifically boring labour – as a mode of production and conceptual influence in his a...
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Moving boredom from problem to opportunity: A psychoanalytic perspective on workplace boredom and identity in organizations Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Michaela Driver
The study develops novel perspectives on workplace boredom by investigating how conscious and unconscious aspects of identity work drive responses to it. Based on a psychoanalytic, specifically Lac...
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Boredom at work: The contribution of Ernst Jünger Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Peter Watt, Fredrik Weibull
This paper interrogates the phenomenon of boredom at work by considering Ernst Jünger’s potential contribution. We contend that Jünger offers an important yet overlooked alternative to the dominant...
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Back to the (invisible) Académie? The organization of poetry as a “pure” art form Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-09-09 Sébastien Dubois
Using the case of French contemporary poetry, this article investigates the organization of “pure” art forms. These are highly legitimate art forms which, instead of being profit-oriented, comprise actors who strive primarily for esthetic recognition. The organizational life of such arts is based on a new academy system which is in some regards comparable to that of the 17th century—leading me to call
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Videographic profanations: A companion to the videography “Pride: Alternative Entrepreneurship Enjoyed” Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-08-24 David Redmalm, Annika Skoglund
This article is a companion to “Pride: Alternative Entrepreneurship Enjoyed,” a videography about the company Prezi’s engagement in the Budapest Pride parade. The aim is to advance video ethnographic methods within Organization and Management Studies (OMS) based on Agamben’s profanatory philosophical method, which puts into focus abstract “sacred” concepts and returns them to the sphere of the profane—of
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Affective diaries of quarantine: Writing as mourning Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Emmanouela Mandalaki
Challenging the bodily-detached logos qualifying as perfect knowledge in academia, I write here to mourn, driven by a visceral need to speak of vulnerabilities and affects, which continuously become overexposed under the COVID-19 pandemic and the corresponding lockdown periods. My diary notes reflect my affective ambivalences, ambiguities, and contradictions during this time, which I interweave with
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Philanthropy and the sustaining of global elite university domination Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Charles Harvey, Alison Gibson, Mairi Maclean, Frank Mueller
How is it that global elite universities operating in a hyper-competitive world replete with aspirational challengers maintain positions of dominance within the field of higher education decade after decade? Taking a Bourdieusian approach, we argue that the highest-ranking universities strategically leverage pronounced philanthropic advantages to differentiate themselves from would-be challengers.
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Health and wellness but at what cost? Technology media justifications for wearable technology use in organizations Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Barbara Plester, Janet Sayers, Caroline Keen
Wearable technology (WT) use in organizations is accelerating despite ethical concerns about personal privacy, data security, and stress from increased surveillance. Technology media, a key producer of meanings about WT, gives some attention to these issues but they also routinely promote WT as if they are a panacea for employee wellness. We critically analyze 150 media articles to understand how they
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Defending hegemony: From climate change mitigation to adaptation on the Great Barrier Reef Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Daniel Nyberg, Christopher Wright
The catastrophic consequences of climate change are now evident with extreme weather events impacting communities and ecosystems. Against calls within civil society for dramatic decarbonisation, the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry is constructed by governments and business as ‘common sense’. By analysing the political process surrounding the 2016 and 2017 coral bleaching of the Great